Art
The State of Iberoamerican Folk Art
In 1995, Cándida Fernández de Calderón embarked on a remarkable expedition to support Mexican folk art.
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German Media May Corroborate $36M Islamic State Antiquities Trafficking
There is significant evidence that illicit antiquities trading contributes to paramilitary funding. It does not happen everywhere, all the time, but it does happen.
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Drawing Hemingway's Cuba
James Richards, a landscape architecture professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, finds anecdotal proof in the life of Ernest Hemingway.
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Grappling with a Family Ghost in an Interactive Photography Project
Photographer McNair Evans's faith in his father was rattled when the patriarch died and the secret of the family agricultural business being near insolvency was revealed.
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UNESCO Announces New Cultural Center for Bamiyan Valley
It's rare that architects have the opportunity to design a building for a UNESCO World Heritage site — much more so for one recently devastated by cultural destruction.
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What Artists Are Thankful For
I spend countless hours alone, ignoring you …
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Giving Thanks with John James Audubon's Beloved Turkeys
A turkey isn't the kind of animal that typically evokes strong feelings. Few of us carnivores interact with it unless we’re eating it.
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Who Invented the Turkey Hand?
One of the mysteries of the holidays.
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Happy Thanksgiving from Hyperallergic
Thanks to James Kerr for conjuring up the spirit of Thanksgiving for us.
Art
Greer Lankton's Dolls Don't Play
I've never seen a spoiler alert for an art show, but I learned two unexpected facts as I perused the Greer Lankton exhibition at Participant Inc.
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Thanksgiving Meals for Modern Artists
What would Vincent van Gogh's Thanksgiving spread have looked like? Would Jackson Pollock have been as gestural in his deployment of gravy and cranberry sauce as he was with his paints?
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19th-Century Photos of a Brooklyn Brownstone
The beautiful mansion that once stood at 353 Clinton Avenue in Clinton Hill in Brooklyn belonged to the industrialist William Henry Nichols, co-founder of the G. H. Nichols and Company. He was tremendously successful in the chemical business, as is plain to see from the plush interiors of his home.